BookOfEnoch

The Book of Enoch
life, and prosperity. And through the third Gate, which is towards the west
come mist and hoarfrost, and snow, and rain, and dew, and locusts.
76.12 And after these the winds towards the west. Through the first Gate,
which inclines towards the north, come dew, and rain, and hoarfrost, and
cold, and snow, and frost.
76.13 And from the middle Gate, come dew and rain, prosperity and
blessing. And through the last Gate, which is towards the south, come
drought and devastation, burning and destruction.
76.14 And thus the twelve Gates, of the four quarters of Heaven are
complete. And all their laws, and all their punishments, and all their
benefits, I have shown to you, my son Methuselah.
77.1 They called the first quarter eastern because it is the first, and they call
the second the south because there the Most High descends, and there
especially the one who is blessed forever descends.
77.2 And the western quarter is called waning because there all the lights of
Heaven wane and go down.
77.3 And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts.
And the first of them is the dwelling place for men; and the second contains
seas of water, and the deeps, and the forests, and rivers, and darkness and
mist; and the third part contains the Garden of Righteousness.
77.4 I saw seven high mountains, which were higher than all other
mountains on the earth; and from them snow comes. And days and times
and years, pass away and go by.
77.5 I saw seven rivers on the earth, larger than all the other rivers; one of
them comes from the east and pours out its waters into the Great Sea.
77.6 And two of them come from the north to the sea and pour out their
water into the Erythraean Sea in the east.
77.7 And the remaining four flow out on the side of the north, to their seas,
two to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea, and they discharge
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